Planter.



J. D. MADDUX.

PLANTER APPLICATION FILED JULY25,1913.

1,089,657. A Patentd Mar. 10, 19ML j i Unir A.heisse D. MnnDUx, ornzrwsm., TEX-As, ASSIGNonoEoN-E-xmr 'ro-JOHN A.

LAUDERDALE, or HnBeERsvH-:Ln muxas. f'

'PLANBE-R.

l 'To all (w11 om it may con-cern:

Be it known that I, JESSE D. Mimpox, a citizen of the United States, resldln et' Atwell, in the county of Qallnhanand tate of "lexas, have `invented .cert-ain new and useful Improvements in lu-nters, of which the following is a specification.-

My 'invention relates. to a 'new and useful planter,A particularly `ac lfepted totplant pean nuts but-also. applicable for-use in planting various' other kinds of seeds.

' Theohject of the invention is to provide afpla'nter 'so constructed and operated that the seed vill be discharged ifrom the top of the lse'edhopper` rathe'r then from the' hopper bottom'asisusually the case, lthis construction in'ziliing-itSpossiblefor thefpe'rso'n o 'perating thepla'nter to observethe seeds as they nrc'being'dis'charged, gthusgiving him delinite `knowledge es--to'whether or not the machine is'op'rating'as it should.

. Still anotherobject of the .invention-is to provide @planter that I nay he. readily edept ed to dropfa'ny desired numbervof' Seeds in e hil'l,''ra.ngmg from oneup. A furtherl object. is to provide a .plante-,r that may be'ada'pted to drop the seeds at any desired distance' l,apa-rt, and which will dischargev the seeds -insuch a. manner as vto positively avoid injurin 'the same.

'A still'further o ject fof4 the lnvention is' to provide a device; of .the .charaoter described thabwillfbe strong, durable, simple 4 .is a. perspective View of a seed Referring new more particularly to the and efficient and comparativel 7sinexpexfislve tol produce, also one in whic Vthe several parts will not be likely to get out of Worxnrf f e above and other objects in view, invention relation to cert-ein novel tentures of construction and operation, an example of whioh is described in thefollowingspeciiieetion and illustrated in the uccoxnpenying dreiving, wherein:

Figure 1^ iss plan -view of my planter. /Fig 2 is s viewshowing the hopper and 'seed discharge mechanism in sectionahele? vation, thee'ection being taken upon the line-X-`X of Fig.n 1; Fig'. 3 is a sectional View taken upon the line Y--Y of Fig. 1 and Showing the Ahopper in front elevatin.- Fig.

drawing, wherein like referencecharacters designate similar parts in vall the figures, the LA-nuruerul 1 vthe side bars of the Specification ot'-'I,etterstibetani. "Patented TQI-ilg, Application and July/25, 1913. serial No. 181,088.

nected at their rear extremities-@hyucross.

plece 2. Upon the forward extremitiesof.

the bars 1 are supported the endsxoianaxle 3 carrying 'at itscenter-.a-.transportng \\iheel 4. Upon the center portion of `lthe-frame comprised 'by Vthe :members -1 and .2, therevis rigidlyniounted a seed ihoppermihichmests 'u pon spzur of angular brackets 7 respectively-secured tothe bars l. The-hopper' and the bar 2 in conjunction. ed'ahlish a rigid relation` between-the?.parallel-:sideibars- 1.' The hopper 6 `Will prefer-ably have its side and rear walllsinclined slightly-'inward V`from top to bottom. Beneathihe-fforwmfd portion of the hopper 6, there 'isrotatbly rnounted :L shaft 8 having its :extremities journaled 1n the brackets. 7., Rotntion is communicated to the shaft@ from-.theaxle' .J3-by e einem 9 engeging apemofsprocket Wheels it). l

At its top, the-front wel ofsthe hopper@ is formed with annperture-llfcentrully disposed. Viithin sa-id-eperture,there brackets 12, the central eperturesowhich receive inverted eye-'bolts 13, screwthreaded et their up er ends in the tops of said brackets.

bolts 13 form -bearings for e shaft 14 parallel to the shaftB, and carrying a pulley 15 hetween the two braekets.

Between the pulley 15 and a pulley 17 Centrally mounted upon'the she t 8, there is extended un endless belt 16, which belt is adapted to travel upwardly Within the hopper 6 and downwardly in front of said hopper.v Upon the outer face of said'belt, there is secured a pluralit' ofseed cells v18 disposed at lequal spacel intervals, elch Cell Aas' it travels upwardly through the hopper being adapted to receive one or-more seeds according to the size of the cellV and the nat-ure of the seeds, and as each cell during the travel of the belt is carried o ver the upper pulley 15, it will assume an inverted position and will discharge its contents. Thel seed therefore will fall tothe ground-from a point just in front of the upper pulley 15. To permit the belt 16 and the seed cells carried by said belt to enterthe hopper, an

aperture 16'l v is formed in the hopper bottom, which aperture -is' normally `(nosed-by n plurality of bristles '19 fastened ateneend upon an edge of lthe aperture 16* and brushing at their free ends against'the face of' the Ti e lower extremities' of the eye-' aremountedtwo spaced'centrallyfapertured belt 1G. These-bristles willyieldiupwardly as elachseed cell passes through the aperture'. 16? but will immediately close said aperture after a seed cell has entered the hopper. A'

metallic false bot-tom 2O will preferably rest upon the true bottom of the hopper, so that when only a. small quantity of seed remains in the hopper, it Will be deflected by the inclined surface of said false bottom to a posi'- tion where it may enter the seed cells as 4 they are carried upwardly into the hopper.

A description will now begiven of a screened casing which may be mounted upon the front wall of the hopper to i-nclose the downwardly traveling portion of the belt 16, and to keep any Wind from reachin the seeds and preventingthe same from Afa ling in a vertical line. .This casing comprises sde-boards 21 rigidly connected et'theupperand lower ends by cross-pieces 22 and 23, said boards being secured to the front wall of the casing at each side'jof the belt by angle-bars 9A having a fixed conneetionzwith the boardsl: of any suitable sort, und having a connection with the hopper such as will permit the easing to be readily removed,

this connect-ion being preferably establishedby bolt and wing nut as indicated at 25.

Between the outer edges of the boards 21,l

there is stretched a wire screen 26 which will preferably curve rearwardly at its up per end .zo as to partially house the upper pulley 15. The above Ydescribed casing serves not only to protect the fallingseeds from the wind but also` guards the downv werdly traveling portion of the belt prewith the same.

venting anything froin'eoming into contact It is to. be observed that the bearings pro vided for the shaft letA aresuch' that said' of the cells 18 upon the belt 16 and will also depend upon the speed at which said belt 'is driven.

It is .apparent that the seeds cannot be discharged from a hopper by the above described mechanism. Furthermore the seeds as they are' carried from th'ehopper are never be any 4uncertainty 'as to whether or not the mechanism 1s operating properly. The invention is presented as including erly come within the scope ofthe following claims: Y v

What'I claim is:

1. In a seed planter'thecombination with a wheel supported frame, of shopper mounted on the frame, an endless belt having 'legs traveling vertically on each side of one of the walls of-'the hopper5 buckets mounted on the belt, a false bottom removably disof the hopper within the false bottomond' contacting with the belt.' l

a wheel supported frame, of ahopper mounted'on the frame, an endless belt having legs traveling vert-ieallypon each side of one of on the belt, av belt casing comprisinglcon nested side vboards extending from' the ,bot` tom to the top of the hopperon the outside thereof, a eoveringof wire'fabricjseeured casing, and vmeans for removably fastening therflange's to the hopperY wall.4

of two subscribing witnesses.

' f JESSE D.

'Witnesses MAlgpUX.

L. VST. REID,

J.. E. ANDREWS.

Crushed or in any way injured when beingposed on the bottom of the hopper and havin port-ions inclined downward-toward the be t, and a brush mounted on the bottom` the walls of the. hopper; buckets mounted*V In testimony whereof; have signed .neme to this speciiicetionin the presence' plainly visible to the operator, and there will all such modificationsand changes as prop- 2. In seed planter the combination with i .85 on the side boards of the'casing 'and extend- 'f ing the entirejlengthof the easing-whereby oneentire leg of the belt is visible, angular flanges secured to the' side boards of the; 

